DAVID CANTOR, formerly a historian at the National Institutes of Health, is a researcher at the Centro de Investigaciones Sociales (CIS) within the Instituto de Desarrollo Económico y Social (IDES), Buenos Aires, Argentina, and an adjunct professor in the School of Public Health at the University of Maryland, College Park, USA.

This weighty book allows insight into the depth of topics covered in twentieth century health films, and the impact of film on health policy and attitudes to medical professionals.

• IntroductionBetween Movies, Markets, and Medicine: The Eastern Film Corporation, Frank A. Tichenor, and Medical and Health Films in the 1920sIn the Service of Industry and Human Health: The Bayer Corporation, Industrial Film, and Promotional Propaganda, 1934-42Conversion Narratives, Health Films, and Hollywood Filmmakers of the 1930s and 1940sProstitutes, Charity Girls, and The End of the Road: Hostile Worlds of Sex and Commerce in an Early Sexual Hygiene FilmFilm and Anti-alcohol Campaigns in the Soviet Union of the 1920s"Where There's Life, There's Soap": Municipal Public Health Films and Municipal Cinema in Britain between the WarsCinema and Public Health Care in Early Postwar Germany, 1945-49International Animation Aesthetics at the WHO: To Your Health (1956) and the Global Film CorpusMeasuring Knowledge and Emotions: Audience Research in Educational Films at the Beginning of the Twentieth CenturyTruffle Hunters and Parachutists: In Search of the Audience for British Health Education Films, 1919-45List of ContributorsIndex

DAVID CANTOR, formerly a historian at the National Institutes of Health, is a researcher at the Centro de Investigaciones Sociales (CIS) within the Instituto de Desarrollo Económico y Social (IDES), Buenos Aires, Argentina, and an adjunct professor in the School of Public Health at the University of Maryland, College Park, USA.

This weighty book allows insight into the depth of topics covered in twentieth century health films, and the impact of film on health policy and attitudes to medical professionals.

• IntroductionBetween Movies, Markets, and Medicine: The Eastern Film Corporation, Frank A. Tichenor, and Medical and Health Films in the 1920sIn the Service of Industry and Human Health: The Bayer Corporation, Industrial Film, and Promotional Propaganda, 1934-42Conversion Narratives, Health Films, and Hollywood Filmmakers of the 1930s and 1940sProstitutes, Charity Girls, and The End of the Road: Hostile Worlds of Sex and Commerce in an Early Sexual Hygiene FilmFilm and Anti-alcohol Campaigns in the Soviet Union of the 1920s"Where There's Life, There's Soap": Municipal Public Health Films and Municipal Cinema in Britain between the WarsCinema and Public Health Care in Early Postwar Germany, 1945-49International Animation Aesthetics at the WHO: To Your Health (1956) and the Global Film CorpusMeasuring Knowledge and Emotions: Audience Research in Educational Films at the Beginning of the Twentieth CenturyTruffle Hunters and Parachutists: In Search of the Audience for British Health Education Films, 1919-45List of ContributorsIndex

DAVID CANTOR, formerly a historian at the National Institutes of Health, is a researcher at the Centro de Investigaciones Sociales (CIS) within the Instituto de Desarrollo Económico y Social (IDES), Buenos Aires, Argentina, and an adjunct professor in the School of Public Health at the University of Maryland, College Park, USA.

This weighty book allows insight into the depth of topics covered in twentieth century health films, and the impact of film on health policy and attitudes to medical professionals.

• IntroductionBetween Movies, Markets, and Medicine: The Eastern Film Corporation, Frank A. Tichenor, and Medical and Health Films in the 1920sIn the Service of Industry and Human Health: The Bayer Corporation, Industrial Film, and Promotional Propaganda, 1934-42Conversion Narratives, Health Films, and Hollywood Filmmakers of the 1930s and 1940sProstitutes, Charity Girls, and The End of the Road: Hostile Worlds of Sex and Commerce in an Early Sexual Hygiene FilmFilm and Anti-alcohol Campaigns in the Soviet Union of the 1920s"Where There's Life, There's Soap": Municipal Public Health Films and Municipal Cinema in Britain between the WarsCinema and Public Health Care in Early Postwar Germany, 1945-49International Animation Aesthetics at the WHO: To Your Health (1956) and the Global Film CorpusMeasuring Knowledge and Emotions: Audience Research in Educational Films at the Beginning of the Twentieth CenturyTruffle Hunters and Parachutists: In Search of the Audience for British Health Education Films, 1919-45List of ContributorsIndex